Roy Parkinson: BECTU Interview Part 1The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Roy Parkinson was interviewed by Sid Cole in 1987.1. On his father H.B. ParkinsonRP: I was born in Surbiton, 22nd January 1916, and my father at that time was a cinema manager.[…]
[…] we had on Moby Dick called. Audie Loman? myself. The script writer who was an English script writer who's name escapes […]
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BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this[…]
[…] walk in on the first day?!ED: What after getting the script? !I: No, could you start with getting the script?!Eileen […]
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[…] a commercial success. I don’t know why – perhaps it’s just too fantastic!JR: Yes.VM: But it was wonderful to be in, of course.JR: And what about the script? Were you happy with the script?VM: Oh, yes, it was all wonderful. We thought it was a brilliant play.JR: It was too sophisticated for the aver[…]
[…]k it was James Bold who ran the office and he rang up and said do you want to do a detective series and I was glad to do anything. Then of course the scripts came along and it was Maigret. They were only going to do six but it was so successful that there was another series, then another. […]
[…]ctice clothes. We dressed John Neville in full evening dress, top hat and made him into a sort of Diaghilev figure. Ian Dallas wrote me a nice little script which was evocative rather than presentational. It gave a sense of what was to come rather than ‘now it is a dance about twins’. He gave a litt[…]
